The sheriff has been editorializing and politicizing the event since he took the podium to report on the incident. His blaming of radio personalities and bloggers is a pre-emptive strike because Mr. Dupnik knows this tragedy lays at his feet and his office. Six people died on his watch and he could have prevented it. He needs to step up and start apologizing to the families of the victims instead of spinning this event to serve his own political agenda.
Jared Loughner, pronounced by the Sheriff as Lock-ner, saying it was the Polish pronunciation. Of course he meant Scott or Irish but that isn’t the point. The point is he and his office have had previous contact with the alleged assailant in the past and that is how he knows how to pronounce the name.
Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff’s Office was informed, his deputies assured the victims that he was being well managed by the mental health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner has a family member that works for Pima County. Amy Loughner is a Natural Resource specialist for the Pima County Parks and Recreation. My sympathies and my heart goes out to her and the rest of Mr. Loughner’s family. This tragedy must be tearing them up inside wondering if they had done the right things in trying to manage Jared’s obvious mental instability.
Every victim of his threats previously must also be wondering if this tragedy could have been prevented if they had been more aggressive in pursuing charges against Mr. Loughner. Perhaps with a felony conviction he would never have been able to lawfully by the Glock 9mm Model 19 that he used to strike down the lives of six people and decimate 14 more.
Good boy... You're following the game-plan perfectly.... Spin, spin, spin.... Let us know when you have an original thought.
"TPN founder Judson Phillips, in an article linked off the e-mail 'The shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and the left's attack on the Tea Party movement,' described the shooter as 'a leftist lunatic' and Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik as a 'leftist sheriff'who 'was one of the first to start in on the liberal attack.' Phillips urged tea party supporters to blame liberals for the attack on centrist Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was shot through the head and is now fighting for her life, as a means of defending the tea party movement's recent electoral gains."
Wow...Sounds just like the drivel that's been spouted here by the right... I guess you guys know where to go to get your responses... When all else fails, "attack the libs".... And, in usual Righty fashion, if you repeat it often enough that "he was a lib", you actually think people will start to believe it... NOT THIS TIME.
Sorry, guys, but this time we've got your play-book before you run it, and watching you follow it, step-by-step is a hoot.
It is always a tough question on pre-emptive action. Do you lock up people for threats and how long? And can't that breed a Gitmo scenario? The perp might just have been spouting off before but once he has been stewing in jail awhile he might decide to act on his threats. Like the Gitmo innocents who were released and became terrorists?
LJ,
You made your point, but what do you think about the question? Should law enforcement lock up people for threats? The Secret Service takes threats on the President very seriously but it looks like Congress people don't get the same level of attention when threats are made against them, including Gabby.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
A number of them seemed to have just pissed off their neighbors who turned in the innocents for US cash and revenge. Like the Chinese Muslims released to the Bahamas.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
I've heard everyone getting blamed except for the parents. We still have no idea who they are and if they had any role in this guy's craziness. Not saying that they did anything wrong, but they raised him and probably knew things and may have ignored the signs. Anyone who places blame on others before knowing the facts is truely ignorant and irresponsible. It's pretty easy to see who those people are around here and in the media.
Yes, blaming the parents will begin, but when is blaming the violence of TV/movies/video games (where shooting rampant zombies is rampant) going to happen? I suppose that is no longer in the sights (there is that violent speech again) of the left and is so passe. But a person would think that viewing and actively shooting video game people would be better training for shooting real people than shooting/gun imagery/rhetoric. But currently there seems to be more political hay to be made by targeting (there is that violent speech again) other group(s).
daisypusher wrote: Yes, blaming the parents will begin, but when is blaming the violence of TV/movies/video games (where shooting rampant zombies is rampant) going to happen? I suppose that is no longer in the sights (there is that violent speech again) of the left and is so passe. But a person would think that viewing and actively shooting video game people would be better training for shooting real people than shooting/gun imagery/rhetoric. But currently there seems to be more political hay to be made by targeting (there is that violent speech again) other group(s).
You make some good points. I don't believe the average kid or adult will ever kill because of these violent movies and video games, but if an unstable person is taking them seriously, they may be more likely to act out. I have a feeling that the number of crazy people in this world is increasing and mixed with our increased exposure to sex and violence..... :VeryScared:
